Media companies constantly raising their prices is *massively* frustrating. I hate them even more when they get customers to sign up to "contracts"... for which they can change the agreed pricing whenever they feel like it .

Devon Live, The Sun, The Register wrote:BT Sport are to hike the cost its channels up by 33% for some customers – 15 times the rate of UK annual wage growth.

Currently, BT Broadband customers pay £7.50 a month for BT Sport channels, but this will jump to £10 in January 2018 – a 33% rise.

For Sky customers who have BT Sport without BT Broadband, charges will jump from £22.99 to £25.99 per month – a 13% rise. Both figures dwarf the 2.2% growth in weekly earnings seen by the average UK worker in the last year.

The latest price increases come just nine months after previous hikes from the TV and internet provider, in April this year. They’re also the third round of price increases BT has made in 18 months.

The last broadband price rise was just seven months ago, on 2 April. The previous one was in July 2016, making the January 2018 hike the third.

In Freesat’s study of 2,000 pay TV customers, while a third (36 per cent) warned that they would have to quit their contract if prices keep rising at the current rate, almost half (45 per cent) said they feel taken advantage of by constant hikes.

A further 34 per cent said they were confused as to why prices go up so regularly, while 35% said they feel powerless to argue.

In the Freesat study, 60 per cent of people with a sports channel subscription feel their service is overpriced, while one in four (27 per cent) said they don’t make full use of their service.

Previous research from Freesat also found that the majority of popular sporting events are available on free channels.

BT is in the process of writing to customers about the bill changes, which take affect from January 7.

Customers can expect to see their bills rise depending on the contract they have with BT, for example:

- Standard broadband customers will pay £24 extra per year

- Fibre broadband customers (Infinity 1) will pay £30 extra per year

BT is also putting up the cost of its unlimited anytime call packages.

Strawberry-floatin’ hell. Why is it that comms companies can just jack up their prices way above inflation every year? I am happy with my fibre broadband with BT, but there is no other option in my area. My mum and dad use BT’s basic broadband (again, the only option for them as fibre is not available) and the service is poor; so slow.

I feel like BT customers are paying through the nose because of the huge amounts of cash BT is splashing around on football .

If you've ever wondered what the Sky customer base now is for television, BARB's latest figures have it pegged at 8.85million for satellite and 1.23m users for NOW TV (way behind Amazon and Netflix on 3.82m and 7.34m respectively).

I'm not surprised, wpince you have it is hard to quite and freebies / freesat is a bit gooseberry fool in comparison and and going totally free using patchup and shiz on something like a fire TV is a bit of a ballache and above many people's ability.

Had an email the other day telling me my sky internet would go up by £1.01 (why the penny? That's just bizarre). This is the same Sky mind you, which purchased my custom from O2 without my permission, then increased my monthly price from £9.50 to £17.50 in just a couple of years.